Staff Development Programs in the Wake of Migration and Refugee Crisis

2019 ◽  
pp. 270-284
Author(s):  
Şefika Şule Erçetin ◽  
Ssali Muhammadi Bisaso
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Migrant Education ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
Migrant Groups

The successful provision of education for migrant groups rests on the shoulders of teachers. This is premised on the valid view that a teacher is a crucial mediator between migrant families and the host country or community. The teacher enjoys the greatest contact with migrant learners and can influence progress of these migrant learners directly and indirectly which informs transformation. Indeed, experts believe that teacher training should aim to improve knowledge, understanding and practical implementation of teaching ideas, materials and methods to facilitate effective learning on the part of migrants. This spelt the entry point of this paper, the need to explore areas in which teacher training or staff development should be conceived in order to transform migrant education. This was done in tandem with intriguing characteristics of migrant learners as well as a closer look at expected structural and managerial adjustments in education courtesy of migration and refugee crisis.

Staff Development Programs in the Wake of Migration and Refugee Crisis

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Şefika Şule Erçetin ◽  
Ssali Muhammadi Bisaso
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Migrant Education ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
Migrant Groups

The successful provision of education for migrant groups rests on the shoulders of teachers. This is premised on the valid view that a teacher is a crucial mediator between migrant families and the host country or community. The teacher enjoys the greatest contact with migrant learners and can influence progress of these migrant learners directly and indirectly which informs transformation. Indeed, experts believe that teacher training should aim to improve knowledge, understanding and practical implementation of teaching ideas, materials and methods to facilitate effective learning on the part of migrants. This spelt the entry point of this paper, the need to explore areas in which teacher training or staff development should be conceived in order to transform migrant education. This was done in tandem with intriguing characteristics of migrant learners as well as a closer look at expected structural and managerial adjustments in education courtesy of migration and refugee crisis.

What's Going On…

1984 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 33
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The University

Study Of In-Service Teacher Training. Researchers at the Center for Educational Policy and Management (CEPM) at the University of Oregon are working with fifteen elementary schools to improve staff-development programs for mathematics teachers.

scholarly journals What Do Migrants Know About Their Childcare Rights? A First Exploration in West Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verena Seibel
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Migrant Families ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Migrant Groups ◽  
The Welfare State

AbstractAlthough an increasing number of studies emphasise migrants’ lack of knowledge about their childcare rights as a crucial barrier to their childcare usage, almost none examines the conditions under which migrant families acquire this knowledge. This study contributes to the literature by exploring potential individual factors determining migrant families’ knowledge about their childcare rights in Germany. I use unique data collected through the project Migrants’ Welfare State Attitudes (MIFARE), in which nine different migrant groups in Germany were surveyed about their relation to the welfare state, including childcare. Analysing a total sample of 623 migrants living with children in their household and by using logistic regression analyses, I find that human and social capital play significant roles in explaining migrants’ knowledge about their childcare rights. Migrants who speak the host language sufficiently are more likely to know about their childcare rights; however, it does not matter whether migrants are lower or higher educated. Moreover, I observe that migrants benefit from their co-ethnic relations only if childcare usage is high among their ethnic group. Based on these results, policy recommendations are discussed in order to increase migrants’ knowledge about their childcare rights in Germany.

Con-men and corporate trainers: show me the learning

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
Jeremy Lamar Gray
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Workplace Learning ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Doctor Of Education ◽  
Current State ◽  
The People ◽  
Effective Learning Environments

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase awareness of how organizations can better recruit and hire Workplace Educators to increase organizational effectiveness through heighten learning and development programs. As a Doctor of Education in the field of organizational leadership, I have witness the task of workplace learning and development relegated to inarticulate and inauthentic trainers who lack the skills-set to provide effective organizational strategy needed in the workplace. The paper gives insight on identifying the less qualified and hiring the better qualified. Design/methodology/approach – The approach to this paper was one of gathering information from the professional experience of the author, literature written on organizational behavior and workplace learning and development. This paper was designed to review the history and examine the current state of learning and development in the workplace. Findings – The findings from the literature review gives creditability to the author’s view that it is time for organizations to create more effective learning environments that starts with recruiting and hiring the most effective Workplace Educators, organizations should separate learning and development from human resources and Workplace Educators should be given a sit at the executive table. Originality/value – This paper provides information for organizations and human resource departments to enhance their knowledge of how they are choosing the people to educate their workplace in the study organizational behavior and learning and development. The focus of the paper is to review the history and build more appreciation and respect for the study of organizational behavior and workplace learning and development.

scholarly journals EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PRINCIPLES, TECHNOLOGIES, PRACTICES

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (4) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
София Горбунова ◽  
Sofia Gorbunova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Culture

<span>The article discusses the principles of education for sustainable development and examples of their implementation in the context of the ecological culture formation. The subject of the study is environmental education for sustainable development. The aim of this research is to formulate the principles of education for sustainable development and to show the ways of their practical implementation. The research uses the comparative approach with elements of hypothetical-deductive analysis. As a result of the study, a set of interrelated principles determining education for sustainable development was defined: continuity, inclusiveness, interdisciplinarity, integration, unity of theory and practice. The results of this study can be used in educational practice in the creation and implementation of curricula and courses, as methodological recommendations for the work of volunteer organizations and educational environmental activities. The results can be used in the sustainable development programs designed by the administrative authorities. Environmental education is an important tool for implementing the concept of sustainable development. Thus, the outlined educational principles should become the basis of educational practices and technologies aimed at the formation of ecological culture and the ecologization of consciousness.</span>

Traditional and Emerging Policy Issues for Staff Development with Particular Implications in Drug Education

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-336
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Caliguri
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Drug Education ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Policy Issues

This paper provides an overview of policy issues regarding staff development programs and incentives in order to increase motivation and productivity in educational programs.

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